LUCI5R
07-17-2006, 06:14 AM
Ave,
I'm newbie at this as i've never worked with a SATA HDD before. I got my 320GB 3.0Gb/s HDD which i'm puttin in my P5W DH Deluxe rig. I was looking at the back of the drive and there are no Jumpers from what i see, where i can set the Drive is Master or Slave or anything. Like the IDE HDD's where i can set the drive to what i want.
This drive needs to be the Master drive and will have my OS on it. I know that there is a Primary SATA slot on the P5W DH Deluxe and i have to plug in the SATA HDD into that slot... but don't i have to set the jumpers to MASTER somehow on this HDD? Or is it Automatic? I will be having another IDE drive installed... which i'll probably set to SLAVE or CABLE SELECT... but will windows know that the SATA is the boot/OS drive?
Secondly, there is one Jumper set on that drive which says two things:
3.0Gb/s operation
Limit to 1.5Gb/s operation
How do i set it to 3.0Gb/s operation? Because my P5W DH Deluxe had lost of 3.0Gb/s SATA Slots... and i want to use that.
Thanks!
I'm newbie at this as i've never worked with a SATA HDD before. I got my 320GB 3.0Gb/s HDD which i'm puttin in my P5W DH Deluxe rig. I was looking at the back of the drive and there are no Jumpers from what i see, where i can set the Drive is Master or Slave or anything. Like the IDE HDD's where i can set the drive to what i want.
This drive needs to be the Master drive and will have my OS on it. I know that there is a Primary SATA slot on the P5W DH Deluxe and i have to plug in the SATA HDD into that slot... but don't i have to set the jumpers to MASTER somehow on this HDD? Or is it Automatic? I will be having another IDE drive installed... which i'll probably set to SLAVE or CABLE SELECT... but will windows know that the SATA is the boot/OS drive?
Secondly, there is one Jumper set on that drive which says two things:
3.0Gb/s operation
Limit to 1.5Gb/s operation
How do i set it to 3.0Gb/s operation? Because my P5W DH Deluxe had lost of 3.0Gb/s SATA Slots... and i want to use that.
Thanks!